[Catalyst] Re: Last Chance / Last Day: Web developmentplatformcontestand Perl / Catalyst

[Robert 'phaylon' Sedlacek]

A. Pagaltzis wrote:

> Ruby is popular because it takes most of Perl 5, throws out all
> the crappy crud, much of which Larry is also throwing out in
> Perl 6 (type globs? wtf?), adds a sane OO system, which Larry is
> also doing in Perl 6, and puts the whole thing into a simple
> regular syntax that has a few *very* nice touches. The inline
> closure syntax in Ruby is just beautiful; trying to do the same
> thing in Perl makes me cringe.

It's quotes like this that for me show the disadvantags of Perl 6. 
People start using it as an argument on why Perl 5 is bad, ugly, flawed. 
I love Perl's OO system, it's low-levelity and it's flexibility. But 
many people say it "sucks." When I tell them why I think that's wrong 
they just say "What do you know, even Larry Wall thinks like me!"

I'd love the intarnets much more if people would stay away from 
labelling things as "sane" or "insane" without arguments, or at least 
with a clearance that it's only a personal opinion. Because "absolutisms 
are wrong all the time."

> Sure, Ruby may suck in ways that Perl doesn’t, but the reverse is
> also true.

I, for one, just dislike Ruby's syntax for example.

gr.,
Robert